Posts tagged contemporary art
What does a nerd do while his daughter is on the couch with strep throat?
Make a Wikipedia article about the best work of art by Jean Tinguely in the United States. Go have a look and fix and typos I’ve left behind, or add more knowledge …
Rice University now on the list of places to go in Texas, thanks to this new work by James Turrell.
Nice that the Whitney is highlighting conservation work.
May 11, 2012: In the stairwell, conservator Eleonora Nagy works on Charles Simonds’ Dwellings.
Photographs by Gretchen Scott
Have You Seen INCCA-NA’s New Web Page?
I’m on the Program Committee for the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art - North America, and for a long time we had a place holder of web page. This just changed as Static Made recently created an excellent new web page (and a complete branding package).
Go check it out, and let us know what you think.
And sign up for the newsletter as we’ll be doing lots of great things in this year and next.
![Go have a listen to this one!
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Andrea Zittel, Sprawl I, 2002. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Andrea Zittel. A survey of Zittel’s work, titled “Lay of the Land,” is on view now at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. The show was organized by Stockholm’s Magasin 3, where it opened late last year. In 2005, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York organized a traveling American survey of her work.
There’s also a significant installation of Zittel’s work on MoMA’s second floor right now, part of the collection-based exhibition “1980-Now.” Sprawl I, which is based on satellite imagery of human encroachment into the American desert, is one of the 12 Zittels on view.
Zittel lives and works at A-Z West outside Joshua Tree, Calif., an enterprise that encompasses “all aspects of day to day living, [in which] home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs.” Zittel also operates High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites in the California desert.
For the show’s second segment, Katherine Ball, who lived on Zittel’s Indy Island (2010), joins me to discuss her residency at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. As part of her residency deployed organic mycobooms around the lake to control pollution and installed a greywater system on the Island.
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here or on the image above. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. To see more images from this week’s show, click here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2s7o319pr1r5tlawo1_400.jpg)
Go have a listen to this one!
Andrea Zittel, Sprawl I, 2002. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Andrea Zittel. A survey of Zittel’s work, titled “Lay of the Land,” is on view now at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. The show was organized by Stockholm’s Magasin 3, where it opened late last year. In 2005, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York organized a traveling American survey of her work.
There’s also a significant installation of Zittel’s work on MoMA’s second floor right now, part of the collection-based exhibition “1980-Now.” Sprawl I, which is based on satellite imagery of human encroachment into the American desert, is one of the 12 Zittels on view.
Zittel lives and works at A-Z West outside Joshua Tree, Calif., an enterprise that encompasses “all aspects of day to day living, [in which] home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs.” Zittel also operates High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites in the California desert.
For the show’s second segment, Katherine Ball, who lived on Zittel’s Indy Island (2010), joins me to discuss her residency at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. As part of her residency deployed organic mycobooms around the lake to control pollution and installed a greywater system on the Island.
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here or on the image above. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. To see more images from this week’s show, click here.
Pretty sure this was a Jenny Holzer “Truism”. (No label in sight.) (Taken with Instagram at Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM))
This fantastic piece by Sonya Clark of Madam C.J. Walker to be featured in new Indy Hotel
Here’s the story in today’s IndyStar.com, which lists all of the art projects at the hotel, and here’s a link to Sonya Clark’s web page.
What a project: Digitising Contemporary Art
Check out this EU project that was recently launched in cooperation with Europeana.
About the project:
DCA will create a digital body of high-quality reproductions of 26,921 artworks - paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, videos and 1,857 contextual documents, which will become accessible and retrievable through Europeana; not only through the use of metadata and thumbnails, but also direct links to large-sized reproductions of each item. DCA will ensure that the rights to all available digital content will be cleared. The content provided, including masterpieces from key artists of most European countries, will fill a gap inEuropeana‘s content supply.
Images are always cool, but I’m super interested in what these “contextual documents” might be.
This is just one of many EU-funded projects around contemporary art and its care. Check out, POPART, another EU-funded project based on the conservation of plastics in museums. Their big conference is going on right now in Paris.
What has the U.S. done on a national scale about the preservation and representation of contemporary art …?
(Via Dale Kronrkight)
Above: Rachel Salzman’s last performance of “Body in Flight (Delta)” at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
This is part II of looking back at the coverage of this artwork online. Part I is here.
Press Coverage
U.S. Department of State Press Release
IMA Press Releases
- Indianapolis Museum of Art to Present the Work of Allora & Calzadilla for 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2011
- Indianapolis Museum of Art Announces Partnership with USA Gymnastics and USA Track & Field for 54th La Biennale di Venezia in 2011
- Indianapolis Museum of Art to acquire work by Allora & Calzadilla from 2011 U.S. Pavilion and premiere Vieques Trilogy in entirety
New York Times Coverage
- Art Team Represents U.S. at 2011 Venice Biennale
- Athletes to Bring Life to Venice Biennale
- A Curator With a Penchant for the Collective
- War Machines (With Gymnasts)
- Combining People and Machines in Venice
Other Publications (totally incomplete list)
- Rebecca Davis in conversation with Jodi Bender
- Allora & Calzadilla: Ironing a Camel’s Hump
- The Collaborator: Curator Lisa Freiman on Allora & Calzadilla’s Provocative U.S. Pavilion for the Venice Biennale
- Jerry Saltz on the Ugly American at the Venice Biennale
- Live IMA exhibit combines gymnastics with modern dance
IMA Blogs
Interesting when you can do research about a new acquisition for your museum by watching YouTube videos that your museum created ….
I didn’t go to Venice to see Allora & Calzadilla’s exhibtion at the US Pavillion, but I’ve payed a lot of attention to it from afar.
The IMA has acquired one of the works from the show, “Body in Flight (Delta),” and it premieres at the IMA next week: more info here.
I’ve started to look for and sort the videos and images I’ve seen about the piece here:
General and Introductory
- From La Biennale Channel
- From the IMA
- The artists speaking generally, also this on working together
- The IMA’s “reactions” to the artworks.
About “Body in Flight (Delta)”
- Details of motion in Body in Flight (Delta)
- Performances at the U.S. Pavilion
- Rest and Motion
- Behind the scenes at the U.S. Pavilion
Images on Flickr
- From the IMA
Visitor Videos of the Piece
Level 2 Gallery: Contested Terrains.
An exhibition at the Tate Modern that highlights 4 artists working in Africa.
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From my continuing visual exploration of Tripadvisor. (Because Google Street View has been beat to death.) Full line-up here.
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Guess where I am?
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You stay classy, Ron Burgundy.
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